Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the BibleChristiana de Groot, Marion Ann Taylor Society of Biblical Lit, 18.9.2007 - 244 sivua Women have been thoughtful readers and interpreters of scripture throughout the ages, yet the usual history of biblical interpretation includes few women’s voices. To introduce readers to this untapped source for the history of biblical interpretation, this volume presents forgotten works from the nineteenth century written by women—including Grace Aguilar, Florence Nightingale, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others—from various faith backgrounds, countries, and social classes engaging contemporary biblical scholarship. Due to their exclusion from the academy, women’s interpretive writings addressed primarily a nonscholarly audience and were written in a variety of genres: novels and poetry, catechisms, manuals for Bible study, and commentaries on the books of the Bible. To recover these nineteenth-century women interpreters of the Bible, each essay in this volume locates a female author in her historical, ecclesiastical, and interpretive context, focusing on particular biblical passages to clarify an author’s contributions as well as to explore how her reading of the text was shaped by her experience as a woman. |
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... Holy Land became more accessible and affordable , and many travelers shared their experiences of life in the biblical world — its smells , tastes , and sights - with wide readerships . Charles's travels , for example , trans- formed the ...
... Holy Scripture ( 1805 ) , and Sarah Ewing Hall wrote Conversations on the Bible ( 1818 ) , a commentary on the Bible in the form of conversation between a mother and her two young children . Christina Rossetti composed devotional prose ...
... Holy Scriptures : Being an Attempt to Explain the Bible in a Familiar Way , published in 1805 , is one of the works Lerner ignored in her analysis . Trimmer's traditionalist work , grounded in the liturgy of the Church of England , does ...
... Holy Ghost ; in the immortality of the Soul ; and in a future state of Rewards and Punishments . ” 5 While Trimmer's education in faith occurred in the context of her family , she also went to school , where she studied English ...
... Holy Scriptures ( 1780 ) , which focuses on teaching children about the created world , ends with a section on reading the Bible . Trimmer's major work on the Bible was Sacred History Selected from the Scriptures ( 1782-84 ) . This six ...
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Conversations on the Bible with a Lady of Philadelphia | 45 |
Catherine McAuleys Interpretation of Scripture | 63 |
A NineteenthCentury Woman as PsalmReader | 81 |
The Kitchen and the Study | 99 |
A Mother to Many | 117 |
Translating the Letter of Scripture Into Life | 149 |
The Prophetic Voice of Christina Rossetti | 165 |
NineteenthCentury Oxford Principal and Bible Interpreter | 181 |
An Adversarial Interpreter of Scripture | 201 |
A Woman of Wisdom and Conviction | 217 |
Contributors | 233 |
Index of Ancient Sources | 235 |
Index of Modern Authors | 241 |